180 riders evacuated after Blue Line train loses power near Orient Heights

Approximately 180 people were evacuated from ... power-outage “as safely and quickly as possible,” according to the spokesperson. At 5:31 p.m., officials advised riders to “expect delays ... Read More

World's Tallest Ferris Wheels

U.S. News Travel has made a list of the ... How tall: 120 meters (about 393.7 feet) The Zhengzhou Ferris Wheel was China's first almost-400-foot-high wheel. Since its debut in 2003, several ... Read More

Brookfield Zoo celebrates 90th anniversary with new 110-foot Ferris wheel

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Brookfield Zoo unveils it's more than 100 foot Ferris wheel Friday ... The zoo said in a news release that the Ferris wheel will give visitors a "unique bird’s ... Read More

19-year-old WWII sailor identified after 80 years through DNA evidence

was assigned to the USS California on Dec. 7, 1941 when the Hawaiian naval base was struck, causing the ship to catch fire and flood, the US Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Walker ... Read More

Record number of Chinese migrants arrested for illegally crossing into US — same number in six months as the whole of 2023

They said they had spent around $75,000 to come to the US, money earned from their business back in China, after hearing success stories from relatives who had already made it across. Read More

News releases

We’re sorry, some parts of the UNHCR.org website don’t work properly without JavaScript enabled. We’re sorry, some parts of the UNHCR.org website don’t work ... Read More

More People Are Evacuated After the Dramatic Eruption of an Indonesian Volcano

More People Are Evacuated After the Dramatic Eruption of an Indonesian ... from the 725-meter (2,378-foot) mountain. The observation from the agency on Friday said that white smoke is rising ... Read More

News from around our 50 States

Pushing supplies in a three-wheel jogging stroller ... last week. The 14-foot female great white was the 17th tagged this summer and the 150th since 2009. After 20 years of making an impact ... Read More

USA Today reportedly changes headline on Trump’s abortion stance after Biden-Harris campaign complain

USA Today changed a headline about presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s abortion stance after the Biden-Harris ... USA Today covered the news with a headline that said, "’The will of the ... Read More

Ocoee High School evacuated after fire reported

AFTER THREE HOURS, THE SCENE WAS CLEARED AND FORTUNATELY EVERYONE CAME OUT SAFE IN OCOEE, SENAIT GEBREGIORGIS WESH TWO NEWS AND AFTER THE SCENE CLEARED, STUDENTS AND STAFF RETURNED TO THE ... Read More

Developer plans 200-foot-high Ferris wheel in downtown San Antonio

In 2017, an anonymous developer planned to develop a 900-foot Ferris wheel along ... as $5 a month allows us to continue offering readers access to our coverage of local news, food, nightlife ... Read More

Meet the USA TODAY Opinion team

Before joining USA TODAY, McCarter was the executive editor at the Evansville Courier & Press in Indiana and the senior news director at ... TODAY Opinion in 2021, after working for more than ... Read More